Korean Peninsula: A God’s-Eye View

The Koreas

Notice the Koreas (smack in the middle). South Korea is all aglow, while North Korea is benighted.

Without resorting to the simple and dogmatic answer that “South Korea is capitalist and North Korea is communist” (though not incorrect, the answer is incomplete), ask yourself, “Why?”

Now you are a geographer! (And an economist, and a political scientist, and a sociologist, and a historian, and a high-school basketball coach – er, wait…)